Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS Police officers look around the area of one of the vehicles involved in Saturday morning's crash on Northeastern Boulevard. Solar glare is believed to have played a role in the crash. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS)

NASHUA — Officials are investigating witness reports that “intense solar glare” may have been a factor in back-to-back crashes that occurred on Northeastern Boulevard shortly after sunrise Saturday.

The identities of the people involved in the crashes weren’t immediately released by police, but at least four of them sustained significant injuries.

The injuries to three of those people sustained injuries serious enough to prompt medical personnel to contact local hospitals and request trauma alerts.

Firefighters, police and AMR ambulances were initially dispatched to a crash involving a car and a utility pole near the corner of Northeastern Boulevard and Murphy Drive.

Two or three people who saw the crash stopped to assist the driver, and while they were standing next to his car, another vehicle — whose driver may have been affected by the solar glare — struck the people as well as the vehicle, leaving the people with significant injuries and causing additional damage to the vehicle.

Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS Firefighters and AMR ambulance personnel wheel one of the people injured in Saturday morning's crash on Northeastern Boulevard to an awaiting ambulance. Several people were hurt in the multi-vehicle crash. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS)

The number of injured people prompted command personnel to request mutual aid ambulances from both Hudson and Pelham to assist the AMR ambulances.

Two of the three people standing outside the car involved in the first crash appeared to be the most seriously injured.

The driver of the second vehicle did not require transport to a hospital.

Updates on the injured people’s condition weren’t immediately available.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS Early-morning solar glare, as depicted in this photo of the scene of Saturday morning's crash on Northeastern Boulevard, is believed to have played a role in the two back-to-back crashes, one of which involved two people who stopped to help victims of the first crash. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS)

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